Sacre Bleu: The French Presidential Election Podcast.

There's discontent in the Socialist Party over the alliance with La France Insoumise. Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol and Hélène Geoffroy want out again.

Éric Ciotti's party is defining its political course in the National Assembly - trotting faithfully along behind the National Rally, the most powerful force on the right.

And Gabriel Attal sent letters to his ministers laying out the cap on their budgets for 2025 - for many a political move, given the fact that Attal's government lost an election over a month ago now.

Show Notes

- Paris Playbook, August 21st, 2024

- France’s Once-Mighty Socialist Party Must Change or Die (Marlon's article)

- Les députés du groupe d’Éric Ciotti, À droite, entrent dans l’arène

- Coup d’envoi pour le budget 2025, décisif sur le plan politique

- Le camp présidentiel prêt à amender certains de ses dogmes économiques

- « On est vraiment dans l’inconnu » : le scénario d’une Assemblée incapable de voter le budget agite les constitutionnalistes

- Fixing France: How to Repair a Broken Republic

- Emmanuel Macron’s France Is a Broken Republic (Olly's article)

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LFI is on guard against reports that the Socialist Party won't oppose Bernard Cazeneuve as Macron's Prime Minister pick.

Raphaël Glucksmann is out with a long interview in Le Point where he talks about turning the page on Macron and Mélenchon, rebuilding French social democracy, and his presidential ambitions.

And the National Rally is preparing for another election in a year's time, resigned to what they say is inevitable paralysis whoever gets picked for PM anyway.

Show Notes

- La gauche se déchire après la menace d’une procédure de destitution d’Emmanuel Macron défendue par LFI

- Jérôme Legavre Tweet

- Antoine Léaument Tweet

- Aurélien Saintoul Tweet

- Lucie Castets affirme que le sujet « n’est pas la destitution mais la cohabitation » avec Emmanuel Macron, sur fond de divisions à gauche

- Raphaël Glucksmann : « Il faut tourner la page Macron et Mélenchon ! »

- Le RN dit se préparer à une « nouvelle dissolution » au terme d’une « année de paralysie »

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François Bayrou talked with Le Figaro yesterday and called for...a government that avoids the extremes.

He also excluded Lucie Castets from becoming Prime Minster, the NFP candidate for the position, saying she has no experience.

We also take a look at a Senate Bill which would require a President under the Constitution to name a Prime Minister within 8 days of an election...it's been about 7 weeks now.

Show Notes

- François Bayrou : «Il est urgent de sortir du jeu des partis politiques qui feignent de vouloir gouverner»

- Pourquoi Emmanuel Macron prend son temps pour nommer un nouveau premier ministre

- Destituer Macron? "Chaque jour qui passe est une sorte d'abus de pouvoir," assène un député LFI

- Recent Senate Texts

- Propositions de loi constitutionnelle, Texte n° 742 (2023-2024): Statut de Gouvernement démissionnaire

- Texte n° 742 (2023-2024), Exposé des motifs

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The Socialist Party and the Greens reject the LFI's impeachment puch as the way forward against Macron.

The Socialist Party says a vote of no confidence is the way to go if and when Macron names a Prime Minister outside of the New Popular Front's candidate, Lucie Castets.

And a brief note on Alain Delon's death, the new moment for secular sainthood and a possibility for Macron to continue avoiding politics.

Show Notes

- Gérald Darmanin Tweet

- Olivier Faure Tweet

- Jean-Marie Le Pen Tweet

- Les Insoumis accentuent la pression et menacent Emmanuel Macron de destitution

- Destitution d’Emmanuel Macron : le Parti socialiste ne soutient pas la menace brandie par La France insoumise

- Menace de destitution d’Emmanuel Macron : le coup de com de LFI agace les autres membres du NFP

- Mort d’Alain Delon : pluie d’hommages à droite, la gauche plus circonspecte

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Jean-Luc Mélenchon and the LFI want to impeach Macron under Article 68 of the French constitution.

They say that's he's derelict in his duties to be a neutral arbiter by refusing to accept the democratic verdict of the recent legislative elections.

Impeaching Macron would be difficult to get through both chambers of France's parliament, but Mélenchon's party has enough deputies to get the ball rolling with a resolution in the National Assembly.

Show Notes

- ⁠« Démettre le président plutôt que nous soumettre » (par Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Mathilde Panot et Manuel Bompard)⁠

- ⁠Article 68 - Constitution du 4 octobre 1958⁠

- ⁠LOI organique n° 2014-1392 du 24 novembre 2014 portant application de l'article 68 de la Constitution (1)⁠

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The title is clickbait - sorry! Marlon takes a solo look at an announcement by Macron to host all the country's political forces on the 23rd of August to determine who the next prime minister will be.

The news sets off the typical paper-selling speculation about who the next Prime Minister might be (mostly familiar names, though one wacky hypothesis).

And Marlon goes over a minor Trotskyist sect and why the National Rally wants to kick it out of a beautiful beach side summer blitz.

Show Notes

-⁠ Office de Tourisme de Leucate⁠

- ⁠Gouvernement : Macron va consulter les chefs des groupes parlementaires et des partis le 23 août⁠

- ⁠Nomination du premier ministre : les noms qui circulent pour Matignon⁠

- ⁠Nomination d'un nouveau Premier ministre : Macron va discuter avec les chefs de parti vendredi prochain⁠

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Marlon takes a solo look at a report from Le Point into how the National Rally is laying the blame for their election results on bad candidate choices. The solution? Get rid of the people who chose the candidates.

The NFP's prime minister choice Lucie Castets looks like she's backing away cautiously from a commitment to immediately implement the program as she searches for a coaltion.

And Place Publique inches boldly towards a governmental coalition - away from the NFP's program too.

Show Notes

- Le RN fait le grand ménage parmi ses cadres locaux

- Rassemblement national : après l’échec des législatives, le parti entame une restructuration au niveau local

- Le smic à 1600 euros et l’ISF sont des «horizons», estime Castets, qui veut aller «chercher des accords» avec les députés, hors RN

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Marlon takes a solo look at the boring impasse French politics finds itself in as Macron continues to refuse to name a government. A veritable democratic scandal, which LFI President of the National Assembly's finance commissions calls an attempt by Emmanuel to essential cohabit in government with...himself.

Show Notes

- Un nouveau Premier ministre nommé fin août ou «début septembre», prédit le chef des sénateurs macronistes

- La gauche s'exaspère : « Emmanuel Macron veut une cohabitation avec lui-même »

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Gabriel Attal calls for a grand coalition (excluding LFI and RN).

Horizons call for a grand coalition (excluding LFI and RN).

Vague policy proposals, of course, from a sweltering France.

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It's hot hot hot in France, and the post-Olympic truce is over. Plus, Macron's spokespeople use the language of Maurras again (not French).

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